Sunday, March 8, 2009

JILL CORCORAN, ASSOCIATE AGENT, HERMAN AGENCY

The Herman Agency is growing!

I am happy to announce that I will be joining Herman Agency as an Associate Agent representing Chapter Books, Middle Grade and Young Adult authors. For more info on Herman Agency and for submission guidelines please see our website at http://www.hermanagencyinc.com/

I am a huge fan of humor. If you can make me laugh or crack a smile, you are my kind of writer. Even in a serious literary book, there is room for humor.

Some of my favorite books are Frindle, Stargirl, Speak, Stuck in Neutral, How I Live Now, Millicent Min, Good Enough, Seeing Emily, Things Left Unsaid, Flipped and Because of Winn Dixie.

I would also love to find funny boy books that are mixed prose and graphic novel a la Wimpy Kid, Bruce Hale's Prince of Underwhere, and even full graphic novels like Bone.

At this time I am limiting queries to published writers. However, as a writer I do have a lot of writer friends, so I will accept queries from writers I know and from the people they refer to me.

Make sure you write the word QUERY in your subject line and please, no attachments.

Modified to add:I have been asked to accept queries from SCBWI members. I owe a lot to SCBWI, and if you are reading this and don't belong....join NOW! As such, I will also accept queries/10 pgs from SCBWI Members too.

Added Feb 1, 2010: I no longer send form declines. If you do not receive an email response to your query + 10 pages within a month, I am sorry but I am not the right agent for your work.

I saw this post on a writing group I belong to. The agency website says published authors only, but your posting to the group did not. I'd love to query you but I'm a first time author, so if it's an automatic rejection based on that, I'd rather not waste either of our time. Can you clarify?

Gael--I am writing like crazy. Thank goodness I have an agent for my work (Ronnie) so that I can concentrate on finding outstanding MG and YA manuscripts and place them with the perfect editors/publishers.